Quality Engineer

Vestas; Windsor, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Vestas Windsor Blades Factory is seeking a Quality Engineer to drive manufacturing quality excellence at our Windsor facility. You will implement preventive controls, monitor process stability, and maintain quality documentation to reflect changes and mitigation actions.

You will lead non-conformance containment, investigations, and corrective actions using structured methodologies, ensuring QMS compliance and continuous improvement across the production line.

Qualifications

• PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, layered audits and process confirmations are used.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain preventive quality controls including PFMEA, Control Plans, SPC, MSA, layered audits and process confirmations.
• Monitor process stability and capability through audits, inspections and data-driven analysis.
• Maintain and update quality documentation reflecting process changes, risks and mitigations.
• Ensure compliance with Vestas QMS requirements and manufacturing standards.
• Lead rapid containment for internal, supplier and customer non-conformances to protect product quality and downstream operations.
• Facilitate root cause investigations using 8D, Six Sigma, 5-Why and other structured problem solving methods.
• Verify effectiveness and long-term sustainability of corrective and preventive actions.
• Review significant quality issues for escalated technical review and resolution.
• Drive Cost of Poor Quality reduction initiatives through preventive quality strategies and defect elimination.
• Lead quality-focused continuous improvement and Kaizen activities.

Skills

PFMEA

Control Plans

SPC

MSA

8D

Six Sigma

Kaizen

Job description

What Does A Quality Engineer Do?

At Vestas, we are driven by a shared purpose: to power the world with sustainable energy. As the global leader in wind energy, we design, manufacture, install, and service wind turbines that help create a cleaner and more sustainable future.

Join our Windsor Blades Factory, where innovation, quality, and teamwork come together to produce some of the world's most advanced wind turbine blades.

Drive Manufacturing Quality Excellence

• Develop, implement, and maintain preventive quality controls including PFMEA, Control Plans, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Measurement System Analysis (MSA), layered audits, and process confirmations.
• Monitor process stability and capability through audits, inspections, and data-driven analysis.
• Maintain and update quality documentation to reflect process changes, risks, and mitigation actions.
• Ensure compliance with Vestas Quality Management System (QMS) requirements and manufacturing standards.

Lead Non-Conformance (NC) Management & Problem Solving

• Lead rapid containment activities for internal, supplier, and customer non-conformances to protect product quality and downstream operations.
• Govern Quality Before Delivery (QBD) Level 1 and 2 processes, ensuring proper escalation, documentation, and closure.
• Facilitate root cause investigations using 8D, Six Sigma, 5-Why, and other structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Verify the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of corrective and preventive actions.
• Review and evaluate significant quality issues for escalated technical review and resolution.
• Drive Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ) reduction initiatives through preventive quality strategies and defect elimination.
• Lead quality-focused continuous improvement and Kaizen activities.